BetterSMB Best practices for small and mid-size businesses

W. David Stephenson wants readers of "The Future is Smart" to know that the "Internet of Things" — the concept that everything can be connected to other things on the Internet — is nothing short of a revolution, because now businesses that embrace the technology can get data about practically anything in real time, a feat that until recently was impossible.

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It's far too easy to make a quick pie chart that utterly fails at communicating the point that you found obvious as you combed through the data. That's where Stephanie D.H. Evergreen's "Effective Data Visualization" book comes to the rescue.

Windows 7 is going end-of-life in January 2020, yet you may not feel a sense of urgency to take any action right now. It can be easy to tell yourself, “we’ll just upgrade at the beginning of quarter 1 2020,” ...

Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S. workforce – in new technologies is the latest reminder that the much-heralded future of work is well underway.

What do SMBs need to know about AI that will allow them to succeed at this technology?

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The traditional understanding of women’s economic empowerment is that, as participation in paid employment increases, fertility decreases.

The world is now increasingly dominated by algorithms, processes or rule sets that make calculations that affect real people. When you see digital advertisements that appear to be targeted to your interests, an algorithm chose those ads for your. When entertainment ...

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Is your organization paralyzed by rules, processes and other things that slow it down and prevent innovation? Have you ever  wondered how your business became so complex? Have you spent hours on tasks, knowing you’ve done work, but not feeling like ...

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Japan is home to a number of the world’s oldest companies. There is even a specific Japanese term for companies that have survived for more than a century, retained ownership within the same family and continued plying the same trade for the duration. They are called “shinise” firms.

Editor’s Note: This blog post is by Andrew Tarvin, CEO of Humor That Works, a consultancy for human effectiveness. As you can imagine, stand-up comedy can make you a better presenter. After all, it’s one of the hardest forms of ...

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We’re squandering increasing amounts of time distracted by our phones. And that’s taking a serious toll on our mental and physical well-being. Perhaps ironically, software developers themselves have been on the forefront of efforts to solve this problem by creating ...

Is it time for your business to embrace the use of multiple computer monitors? Some professionals like having the extra screen space to work with. Some won’t work without it. But having more displays on a computer can be distracting. ...

Imagine this: your company works with multiple call centers, and you need to train agents on something new. The company spends gobs of time and money building a virtual classroom course for the staff to use online, from their office ...

People are what make your business succeed or fail. Without people to buy your company’s products or services, you have no revenue. Without people to make your company’s products or services, you have nothing to sell. If there’s one thing ...

You can now set your preferred communication method for each of your contacts by different categories such as call, message, or mail.